The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We learned it was a fraud [893d] [hn]
• Show HN: Airdraw [893d] [hn]
• Medprompt+: GPT-4 vs. Gemini Ultra [893d] [hn]
• Stable Zero123: Quality 3D Object Generation from Single Images [893d] [hn]
• Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp [893d] [hn]
• The Journal of Universal Rejection [893d] [hn]
• After getting $824M in state aid, GM to cut 900 jobs at Orion Assembly [893d] [hn]
• Unattractive funds managers outperform funds with attractive managers by over 2% [893d] [hn]
• Postfix 25 years old today [893d] [hn]
• Stable Diffusion Turbo on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 generates an image in 29 minutes [893d] [hn]
• Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead [893d] [hn]
• Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019) [893d] [hn]
• Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner [893d] [hn]
• DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem [893d] [hn]
• Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown [893d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame [893d] [hn]
• Maybe Getting Rid of Your QA Team Was Bad, Actually. [893d] [hn]
• Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic [893d] [hn]
• 'It's all gone': CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission [893d] [hn]
• Vision Pro will change photography [893d] [hn]
• Show HN: Octopus – a directed acyclic graph for app development [893d] [hn]
• Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer(2016) [893d] [hn]
• Rising costs mean food companies are making snacks, sodas taste worse [893d] [hn]
• Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market' [893d] [hn]
• Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin – Lex Fridman Podcast [video] [893d] [hn]
• Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android [893d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg's Top-Secret Hawaii Compound [893d] [hn]
• Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade [893d] [hn]
• Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case? [893d] [hn]
• OpenAI Announces $10M Superalignment Grants [893d] [hn]
• Weak-to-Strong Generalization [893d] [hn]
• Spin the IKAT Christmas Pyramid with Your Clicks – TU Chemnitz Celebrates [893d] [hn]
• The UX of delivering parcels [893d] [hn]
• What's Going on with Language Rankings? [893d] [hn]
• Dynamic vs. Static Dispatch [893d] [hn]
• Ruby's private keyword is weird [893d] [hn]
• In Indonesia, humanity's oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it? [893d] [hn]
• First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot [893d] [hn]
• When the New York Times lost its way [893d] [hn]
• The Most Dangerous Canadian Internet Bill You've Never Heard of Is a Step Closer [893d] [hn]
• Ubiquiti showing other users' consoles [893d] [hn]
• Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults [893d] [hn]
• FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs [893d] [hn]
• The AI Trust Crisis [893d] [hn]
• JWST Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star [893d] [hn]
• Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs [893d] [hn]
• Intel launches Core Ultra processors, can it compete with the Apple M3? [893d] [hn]
• Turing Awardees Republished Key Methods and Ideas Without Credit [893d] [hn]
• Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 yrs with the leading K8s package manager [893d] [hn]
• Effect Cases in Switch [893d] [hn]
• Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving [893d] [hn]
• Link's Awakening DX HD [893d] [hn]
• Moderna Melanoma Vaccine Cuts Death Rate in Half [893d] [hn]
• The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born [893d] [hn]
• S-LoRA: Serving Concurrent LoRA Adapters [893d] [hn]
• Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy from Air [893d] [hn]
• Ledger's NPM account has been hacked [893d] [hn]
• Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras [893d] [hn]
• Visualizing Fighting Game Mechanics [893d] [hn]
• Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar [893d] [hn]
• Ledger Wallet's LedgerHQ/connect-kit hit by supply chain attack [893d] [hn]
• Ledger library confirmed compromised and replaced with a drainer [893d] [hn]
• Doola a "Business-in-a-Box" for LLCs (YC S20) Is Hiring a Data Analyst (Remote) [893d] [hn]
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip [893d] [hn]
• Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person [893d] [hn]
• Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe [893d] [hn]
• On being wrong about AI [893d] [hn]
• Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU [893d] [hn]
• Should you add screenshots to documentation? [893d] [hn]
• Multiple microprocessors as a single CPU (not multiprocessing) [893d] [hn]
• Fracking for Europe [893d] [hn]
• Improving Node.js Loader Performance [894d] [hn]
• AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking [894d] [hn]
• Xorg being removed. What does this mean? [894d] [hn]
• Fast Fashion Casino [894d] [hn]
• Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find [894d] [hn]
• Why are you so sure I'll lose? [894d] [hn]
• QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices [894d] [hn]
• Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995) [894d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills? [894d] [hn]
• Threads Is Testing ActivityPup Integration [894d] [hn]
• High Scalability is up for sale [894d] [hn]
• Diffusion Models for Robotics Control [894d] [hn]
• Microsoft releases Windows AI studio to run and fine tune models locally [894d] [hn]
• Lessons from building GitHub code search [video] [894d] [hn]
• Google's Response to Reptar CPU Vulnerability [894d] [hn]
• Tell HN: M3 Max 120GB is 8x faster at Llama2 inference than RTX 4090 [894d] [hn]
• Ex-Facebook diversity manager pleads guilty to bilking $4M from company [894d] [hn]
• Mohammad Alotol (From YC S22 Cohort) Killed in Gaza [894d] [hn]
• Earlyoom – Early OOM Daemon for Linux [894d] [hn]
• Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively [894d] [hn]
• Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Sr Software Engineers and Other Roles (Remote) [894d] [hn]
• The average store size in the US is the smallest it's been in at least 17 years [894d] [hn]
• Roy Kerr: Do Black Holes Have Singularities? [894d] [hn]
• Google ad chief Jerry Dischler steps down weeks after antitrust trial testimony [894d] [hn]
• Font Sizes from 4px to 99.9px [894d] [hn]